Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Donald Trump: 'There is no white genocide, full stop'

ANC stalwart, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says United States President Donald Trump' narrative of a white genocide in South Africa is not ignorance but deliberate misinformation.

- JONISAYI MAROMO

IOL reported that during a high-stakes meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa last week, Trump said he has received many complaints about the treatment of Afrikaners in South Africa, insisting that many were being brutally murdered and their land taken away.

“We have many people who feel they are being persecuted and they are coming to the United States. We take from many locations and if we feel there is persecution or genocide going on,” he said.

“We have had a tremendous number of people, especially since they have seen this, generally they are white farmers and they are fleeing South Africa. It is a very sad thing to see. I hope we can have an explanation of that ... it is a different kind of meeting and we will talk about that.”

On Friday, Dlamini-Zuma a former African Union Commission chairperson told broadcaster Newzroom Afrika that the assertions of genocide are unfounded.